Running 2023-24 Hot Stove Thread

[qtlaw]

My favourite thread of the year. We get to see Bay Are fans go batshit when the Giants don’t sign the likes of Carlos Carerra for 700 mill.

Well I'd rather have at least followed him in the SF uniform than watching Thairo Estrada as the best every day player in the line up for the entire 162 game season. Hell even Brandon Belt was better than every single hitter the SFG ran out there in 2023.

 

[ChrisLong]

My money's on the Angels.

I believe this, too.
I took a friend (who lives in Oregon) to an Angels-Rangers game the last week of the season. He asked me about Ohtani. I motioned to all of the fans sitting around us. They were mostly Asian and most had on Ohtani jerseys or T-shirts. I told him to look at the empty seat two rows in front of us. What's on it? He said a couple of big plastic bags. I said, there's your answer. Most of the fans here are Asian. That woman spent a couple hundred dollars in the team store before the game. If Ohtani leaves, all of that goes away, too. They can't afford to NOT keep him.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Kershaw shoulder surgery. He’s “hopeful” he can return next summer. Done?

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

My money's on the Angels.

Mine too, if only b/c he runs that organization at a level even LeBron can't envision. I'm not sure anyone else is going to be willing to let he & his agents dictate every little thing. The whole nonsense w/him only talking after he pitches and everyone else being asked about him the rest of the time isn't going to fly anywhere else. Plus. Ohtani is the only thing keeping Moreno from complete irrelevance as an owner (we all love Trout, but his day has come & gone and plus, he's only a one-way player) so I can't see him being outbid, even when the bidding gets to insane levels of fuck you money.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

My Baltimore wish list:
* Front line starter, i.e. Snell, Nola, Sonny Gray. Add that to a solid core of Bradish, Rodriguez and Means and you've got something.
* Back-end bullpen guy. Cano has the stuff to be the closer but there's a huge void in getting to him. Or maybe you swing hard for a guy like Josh Hader (Maryland native) and let Cano get back to his 8th-inning role.
* Veteran bat. Lots of kids ready to come up, but someone like Jorge Soler who can play outfield and fill in at DH would be a nice add.

This winter needs to be the finishing stage for the O's, a la the Cubs after their breakthrough in '15. This is a World Series-caliber team that needs a couple pieces to get over the top (and of course some luck in October & early November). I have less than zero faith in Dipshit Sonny Boy doing that though,

 

[tapintoamerica]

My Baltimore wish list:
* Front line starter, i.e. Snell, Nola, Sonny Gray. Add that to a solid core of Bradish, Rodriguez and Means and you've got something.
* Back-end bullpen guy. Cano has the stuff to be the closer but there's a huge void in getting to him. Or maybe you swing hard for a guy like Josh Hader (Maryland native) and let Cano get back to his 8th-inning role.
* Veteran bat. Lots of kids ready to come up, but someone like Jorge Soler who can play outfield and fill in at DH would be a nice add.

I may be wrong, but I was impressed with DL Hall in September. I think he can be a bridge guy.
It's suddenly an attractive spot for a free agent -- i.e. one that doesn't have to overpay terribly.

 

[FileNotFound]

I have a feeling the Rays may dangle Tyler Glasnow as trade bait, particularly if they find themselves needing a bat at shortstop.

 

[HanSenSE]

Sounds like every team wants a couple of more arms. Are there that many out there?

 

[maumann]

Sounds like every team wants a couple of more arms. Are there that many out there?

Funny you should ask. I count 119 pitchers who made 20 or more starts in 2023. Of those, 55 had ERAs of 4.00 or less. And that includes Ohtani and Kershaw, who may not pitch much at all in 2024.

So to answer your question, a whole lot less supply than demand.

 

[Hermes]

I have a feeling the Rays may dangle Tyler Glasnow as trade bait, particularly if they find themselves needing a bat at shortstop.

I cannot think of a franchise that had a sounder plan moving forward that they had to completely throw in the garbage than last year’s Rays. Everything has to be shuffled around. Not that that front office can’t do it. Although that Civale trade still puzzles me.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Funny you should ask. I count 119 pitchers who made 20 or more starts in 2023. Of those, 55 had ERAs of 4.00 or less. And that includes Ohtani and Kershaw, who may not pitch much at all in 2024.

So to answer your question, a whole lot less supply than demand.

The Pirates are gonna get a haul for Mitch Keller. Then they'll get a haul for those guys 3-5 years from now, @outofplace.

 

[outofplace]

The Pirates are gonna get a haul for Mitch Keller. Then they'll get a haul for those guys 3-5 years from now, @outofplace.

They will most likely get less than full value because teams know any noise they make about keeping him and locking him up is probably bullshit.